Artest to LAL

yunggunz · Post #1 » by **yunggunz** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:41 pm

New Jersey Nets

Incoming Players

Vladimir Radmanovic
Salary: $5,632,200 Years Remaining: 4
PTS: 7.4 REB: 2.7 AST: 1.6 PER: 11.35

Lamar Odom
Salary: $13,248,596 Years Remaining: 2
PTS: 13.5 REB: 9.6 AST: 2.8 PER: 14.01

Outgoing Players: Jason Collins, Nenad Krstic, Marcus Williams, Bostjan Nachbar, Jamaal Magloire
Los Angeles Lakers

Incoming Players

Jason Collins
Salary: $6,100,000 Years Remaining: 2
PTS: 1.4 REB: 2.2 AST: 0.5 PER: 2.01

Ron Artest
Salary: $7,400,000 Years Remaining: 2
PTS: 18.2 REB: 5.5 AST: 4.1 PER: 16.24

Jamaal Magloire
Salary: $4,000,000 Years Remaining: 1
PTS: 1.9 REB: 3.6 AST: 0.3 PER: 2.05

Outgoing Players: Vladimir Radmanovic, Lamar Odom, Javaris Crittenton
Sacramento Kings

Incoming Players

Nenad Krstic
Salary: $1,889,760 Years Remaining: 1
PTS: 4.9 REB: 3.3 AST: 0.2 PER: 2.30

Marcus Williams
Salary: $1,180,200 Years Remaining: 2
PTS: 2.9 REB: 1.0 AST: 1.1 PER: 8.77

Bostjan Nachbar
Salary: $2,500,000 Years Remaining: 1
PTS: 10.1 REB: 3.1 AST: 1.0 PER: 11.23

Javaris Crittenton
Salary: $1,285,200 Years Remaining: 2
PTS: 3.4 REB: 1.0 AST: 0.9 PER: 11.00

Outgoing Players: Ron Artest

For LA
Pick up Artest who will take them to the next level. They will probably play artest primarily as a 4. When Bynum comes back, Artest/Kobe/Bynum make one hell of a scary trio. This is also a move aimed at financial flexibility....giving them an extra 11 mill or so in expirings. By my count this leaves them with about 43 million on the cap for next off season, giving them roughly 14 mill to make a huge splash. Elton Brand? Gilbert Arenas?

For Jersey: Tries to salvage their season. Gets a couple guys who will come in and contribute for a bunch of guys that arent contributing.

For SAC Gets loads of young talent for a guy thats leaving anyways.

yunggunz · Post #2 » by **yunggunz** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:59 pm

U-Borat wrote:Definitely not for LA. We trade 2 useful players and a prospect for one useful player...and 2 useless ones.
No thanks.

You dump a bad contract, get an upgrade, and open up cap space to get a big name FA

Post #3 » by **pillwenney** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:06 pm

Artest leaving is no guarantee, but on another note, what's the point of getting two young PG's--especially with Beno here? I could understand maybe getting one, but the other one would have to be exchanged for something else IMO.

Edit: I'd much, much rather have Sean Williams than the Marcus-Nenad combo.

yunggunz · Post #4 » by **yunggunz** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:10 pm

U-Borat wrote:Vladrad is a bad contract who produces.
Jason Collins is not.
We don't get capspace of any significance with this trade. Unless Artest opts out, in which case its absolute crap for us.

In which case this is even better. You get Artest for a push deep in the playoffs this year, and then you lock up a guy like Brand or Arenas, or make an offer to a guy like Biedrins or Josh Smith.

RoxFan08 · Post #5 » by **RoxFan08** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:46 am

That's a bad deal for the Nets. Lakers get Artest AND dump Radmonovic?

FlawlessVictory · Post #6 » by **FlawlessVictory** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:03 am

This is great for the Lakers in terms of value alone.

However, I agree that this is a poor fit.

We are left with no serviceable PFs. Magloire CANNOT play the 4 in the triangle, and employing Kwame there is more than the laughable. Collins just might be worse than Kwame offensively, and that's impressive.

We are left with four centers, 3 small forwards, and 1 PF in Ronny Turiaf who can't stay on the floor.